Omphalos OOC

Everyone seems to be really busy at the moment, and I myself have had a hell of a week, so I don't think starting today is going to work after all. If anyone does want to play around Manchester Pride weekend, feel free to thread a few things before the official start, I'm not going to stop you!

Play will officially begin on Friday 25th August, but before that feel free to create existing connections to start out with!

Do you have an alt-world character who needs a roommate? Are you looking for existing family or friends for your character? Work colleagues? Football buddies? Leave a comment here, and I'll periodically remind people to look at this post as we approach Opening Day.

There are worlds other than our own. Worlds of vampires and werewolves, worlds of magic and divergent evolution. Worlds so similar to our own we’d have to look hard to see any differences at all.

These worlds are connected. Call it magic, call it advanced quantum entanglement, call it the foundations of the multiverse, but no world exists completely apart. Some connections have existed since before time could be measured, others seem to come and go with the seasons or the wind, moving moment to moment. Most of the time these connections simply exist, invisible and unseen, and it’s rare for anyone to notice them at all. Sometimes someone happens upon a place where their world is tethered and the connection becomes a road Between, transporting them to the place where every world is anchored. A kind of universal umbilical tying every place to the central point, the hub of all worlds, the foundation stone of existence. The Omphalos.

That place is our world.

Many tributaries flow into each other, creating strong anchors to this world. One of these anchor points is in Manchester, England. Formed and shaped in a place of history and knowledge, this invisible point in space becomes the arrival point for many accidental travellers. Between one breath and the next, people find themselves standing in an upper floor alcove, between stacks of books in the historic reading room of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, England.

Getting back seems impossible. Welcome to your new home.

***

Travellers from other worlds will be made welcome, given a roof over their head and a place to gather where they might also meet with natives who know their situation. The woman who owns the cafe is a mystery, though perfectly friendly. She'll tell you all she knows (or seems to do so), but why is she so concerned about the sinkholes appearing around Manchester every few months? And who is the elusive old man in the shabby, old fashioned suit, who keeps appearing around the library? Aside from "he's grumpy", no one seems to know anything about him.

It's all a mystery, but in the meantime you have to learn to live here. Good luck.

( What happens when an alt arrives? )

Here's the code and information for your character's profile page. If you don't want to add an image, just delete the second line. You can always copy it back in later if you change your mind!

I've made some (hopefully explanatory) comments in brackets. Just go ahead and delete those when you fill in each section. The finished article should look a bit like this.

( Code )

I'm going to assume here you've read the rules and know what you're getting into. If not, I suggest you do that!

If you know what to do and just want all the stuff you need handy, it's right here.

Any comments/questions/etc you don't want to share with others can be emailed to me, or left here.

( Step by step )

Please copy/paste/fill out this application and email it to the mod with the subject line "Omphalos Application".

( App under the cut )

Some of these rules, especially play format rules, are really broken down step-by-step. I know in most cases it's "teaching grandma to suck eggs", but people who aren't familiar (or are less familiar) with journal-based RP are welcome here and I want to make sure we're all on the same page. Hopefully once we start playing things will be obvious anyway.

( Rules )

( FAQ )

PBs can be repeated where a character is duplicated from another point of the same canon, or an actor has played characters in multiple canons represented in game. A PB can only be claimed once as an OC PB (but may be used for a canon character as well). If a PB has already been used as a canon character, please find someone else for your OC to spare us confusion as much as possible!

Example: Charlie Hunnam could be used for Sons of Anarchy season 1 compliant and season 4 compliant Jax, and Raleigh from Pacific Rim. Jax and Jax will look identical (except for age/canon changes in appearance), whereas Raleigh will look similar enough that if he grew a beard you might mistake him for Jax for a moment if you passed him in the street, but a double-take would probably fix the confusion. Charlie Hunnam could also be used by one original character who existed before Raleigh and the Jaxes showed up, with the same similar-but-not-identical caveat.

Claim 'form'
PB:
Character:
OC/Canon?: (if canon, where are they from?)
Player:

E.g.
PB: Charlie Hunnam
Character: Jax Teller
OC/Canon?: Sons of Anarchy. Canon-compliant to end of season 2.
Player: Name here


( Claimed PBs )

Claims will be held for 2 weeks. If you haven't completed the character app by that time, the claim will lapse unless you let me know you need more time.

If you're playing an OC, you can skip this step!

Fandom:
Character:
Point in Canon they come from: (e.g. canon-compliant to the end of season 4, the whole canon, or a specific episode/book/movie/event you're using as a cut off. Try not to spoil people if it's recent!)
Extra canon: Y/N (e.g. if you played them in a game elsewhere before bringing them here. No need to link to anything, and you can put their bio in their profile page, this is just to let people know there's some non-fandom-canon character-canon. I'm using that word too much).

( Claimed Characters )

Claims will be held for 2 weeks. If you haven't completed the character app by that time, the claim will lapse unless you let me know you need more time.